Comment & Opinion

In the contention over the United States’ peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role — carping from the sidelines. Not only ca...

Precarity is an omnipresent force lurking just under the surface of daily life for the average American family. Fear of an adverse expense spells the ...

In early November, U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson’s (R-Ohio) simple Affordable, Reliable, and Clean Energy Security Act underscored the titanic shift in the...

A federal judge has dismissed indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The move should be a le...

In 2023, after Republicans’ defeat in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, I wrote, “The Left has done a stellar job convincing deep-pocketed national...

More than half a million women left the labor force this year. Many are mothers with young children. It's being called the next she-cession. This may ...

Fears that the Trump administration would leave the people of Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal intentions are still very much aliv...

Chicago Public School employees spent an “exorbitant” $14.6 million on travel in 2023 and 2024, including to vacation spots like Disney World and Las ...

In Marcie Schellhammer’s column in the Nov. 15-16 edition of The Era, regarding poor customer service, she posed the question, “Is customer service a ...

As the holiday season begins, Main Streets across America are coming alive with lights, decorations and the energy of small businesses preparing for o...

The Department of Homeland Security paid a company — filled with Secretary Kristi Noem’s friends and allies — to create at least one of several politi...

I heard the report in early November. On a business channel, Target stores announced a new internal training program for the coming holidays called “1...

ATLANTA (TNS) — President Abraham Lincoln officially made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, during the Civil War that threatened the very exist...

HARRISBURG — Integrity is doing the right thing — even if nobody is watching. However, after this month's election, it’s clear that Pennsylvanians are...

The United States is gearing up for what could be a major military operation with the ultimate objective: regime change in Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro i...

ATLANTA (TNS) — When President Donald Trump was booked and fingerprinted at the Fulton County Jail in 2023, there was just one elected official there ...

After a four-month impasse, Pennsylvania lawmakers finally delivered the 2025-26 state budget. The newly minted spending plan offers some meaningful p...

With pressure mounting, the House and the Senate this week passed legislation mandating the release of a slew of government documents involving financ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Whether to attempt the big leap from private life to state representative has become a pressing question for aspiring lawmakers, as...

Ronald Reagan once joked, “A Republican candidate was out giving a speech to a group of farmers. He was standing on the bed of a manure spreader, and ...